Names you just don’t understand the hype for?

I dislike most Gaelic names. They sound ugly to me.

I think willow and grace are risky names if you have larger genes in your family. There was a rather large dumpy girl at school named willow and it seemed quite a cruel name to give her.

@CatteStreet

Nobody would have ever used it as a given name in previous generations

My husband is Jack (in his 30s) named after his grandfather as he was born on his birthday. His grandfather's given name was also 'just' Jack, not John

Names do kind of blow up though. I always wanted to use the name Ava as it was a relatives name & always loved it. Myleene Klass called her dc it & then the name was everywhere so I didn’t want to use it anymore.

One of my dc’s names are on here but it doesn’t bother me.

I don’t really hate any names but not a fan of
Wolf
Fox
Bear
Winter
etc the people who tend to use them seem to think they are super individual but actually always dress the same, work in creative industries, live in in East London or Margate etc

Blaze 😕

I keep seeing Willow on MN. Just why?

It's awful, I agree, but worse still I saw I thread where everyone thought Willa was great. Willa, FFS!

Well at least two of those names aren’t names at all when you remove the ‘den’ part!

I'm not a fan of Logan either. Or Lachlan!

Logan. Never heard it before and now know at least 3!

And, sorry, I mean common as in 'occurs frequently', not as in the way my Gran would have meant it!

@LatteLove I know - it seems impossible (and I know the names of a relatively small handful of girls at my DDs' schools). However, there is a list published at the start of every year by my DS's school, which is a good read.

Hate old names such as:-
Margaret, Beryl, Betty, Ethel, Maud, Violet, Ivy, Beatrice, Beatrix, Francis, Norah, Florence,

Stanley, Ernest, William, George, Harry, Henry, Amos, Alfred, Gerald, Oliver, Percy, Walter

Also hate ‘cute’ names:-
Daisy, Poppy, Lucy, Rosie

Alfie, Frankie, Archie, Tommy

And anything double barrel:-
Daisy-May, Ellie-May, Sophie-Jo

Tommy-Leigh, Theo-Ben, Ellis-Lee

Honestly, I couldn’t imagine being in a board room calling for Daisy-May🤦‍♀️

My DS is at a boys' school with 1,500 pupils. There isn't a single Hayden, Cayden, etc. Neither is there a Jaxon, Parker, Hunter, etc, as surnames-as-first-names doesn't seem to be a Thing there.

Do you know every single pupil’s name in a school of 1500 kids? I find that quite hard to believe. My son is in a school the same size and I don’t even know the names of everyone in his year, far less the whole school

Janderson Ottilie is far from ‘common’ disliked maybe but it’s ranked at 226th. Unless you are using common in a different context.

My DS is at a boys' school with 1,500 pupils. There isn't a single Hayden, Cayden, etc. Neither is there a Jaxon, Parker, Hunter, etc, as surnames-as-first-names doesn't seem to be a Thing there.

DD is at a girls' school, and there are no Whatsit-Maes either. Thank God.

I keep seeing Willow on MN. Just why? Likewise Sadie, Wren, Ottilie. The latter is nice, but is now evidently common.

Any fashionable, cool name ie Jaxon, Parker etc.

Seen a few True's (who were born pre True Kardashian). It's child cruelty!

Anything double barrelled too!

And this thread runs on. Sad that this is what Mumsnet is these days.

Cherish is awful. Bad enough before but now reminds me of that goddawful woman on Professional Bake Off!

Ottilie is a real name. It's the name of a character in a Goethe novel. Apparently it's a Germanic version of the French Odile (or vice versa). Hardly anyone in Germany is calling their dd it, even though old lady chic is just as big a thing there as in the UK and there are loads of little Friedas, Lottes and so on. I don't actually mind it as a name, I'm just incredibly surprised that it seems to have caught on in at least a small way in the UK.

All 3 of mine have been mentioned now 😂 damnit, I was doing so well until page 10!

I don’t get the sudden popularity in -ie names, particularly for boys.

Ronny, Frankie, Archie, Vinnie, Alfie, Albie, Sonny

Alice .. unbearably twee

Grace - sounds like Grease

Noah - such a drippy, wet blanket name

Anything with a hyphen that ends in Mae

I've never understood why someone would pick something super popular anyway. I love Isabella but wouldn't use it because it's a bit overdone. I wouldn't want my daughter being one of five Isabella's in her class.

Proud mother of a Wynter Rose- I hit double mumsnet points with the younique spelling and flower middle name. It’s not hyphenated so I don’t get a full house.
I really dislike the names Harper and Stanley. Dd1 had a kid called Cherish in her class which I just loathe

Popular names round my way are

Lexi
Lacey
Mason
Harrison

All absolutely horrific imo.